CATEGORY: Index in the Press

As France continues to push the envelope in terms of enforcing a worldwide “right to be forgotten,” free press advocates in the U.S. have stepped in to help Google defend itself from an order to delist content across the global Internet.  Read the...

Een opmerking van VVD-parlementariër Han ten Broeke over “het nut van publicatie” OneWorld is gesignaleerd door het internationale project Index on Censorship. Ten Broeke vond het vreemd dat het (met overheidsgeld gesubsidieerde) OneWorld...

Press freedom in the UK is under threat as the Snoopers' Charter undergoes its third and final reading at the House of Lords today, 31 October. Read the full article

IT was the biggest stitch-up since Beau Brummell told the Prince Regent he needed some new togs; with a flick of a barrister’s pink highlighter, the Press Recognition Panel (PRP) this week officially granted Royal Charter status to Max Mosley’s bid...

Index on Censorship magazine reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement. Founded in 1972 by the British author and translator Michael Scammell, Index on Censorship has been dedicated for more than four decades to documenting worldwide censorship and...

Social media has played an important role in recent social movements, from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, but technology can potentially undermine democracy as well as empower it. In particular, search engine algorithms and electronic...

Index on Censorship magazine is discussed in Times Literary Supplement podcast. With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Elaine Showalter on how extreme misogyny turned Clinton vs Trump into woman vs man; Jonathan Barnes on the long shadow of Bram...

Cake decoration seems like an odd thing to divide a society, but it’s causing a major rift in Northern Ireland. On Tuesday the Belfast Court of Appeal ruled that the family-owned Ashers bakery discriminated against Gareth Lee, a member of the...

A controversial organisation funded by the former Formula One boss who was exposed for taking part in an orgy was yesterday approved as Britain's first state-sanctioned press regulator, in a move which threatened to undermine centuries of free...

Introducing the theme of the current issue of Index on Censorship (UK), Rachael Jolley writes that anonymity 'protects from danger, and it allows those who wouldn't be able to speak or write to get the words out. ... From the early days of Index on...